Alcohol Quote by Bernard DeVoto

There are a million boys growing up in the United States who have never seen a saloon, and who will never know the handicap…

— Henry Ford

No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more…

— Alice-Leone Moats

No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

— Thomas Jefferson

We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol.

— Bill Bruford

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

— Santiago Durango

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.

— Marian Burros

Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk,…

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

— Elisabeth Shue

“In the 18th century, cheap, unregulated spirits flooded the market, resulting in more individuals turning to alcoholism. The wave of new immigrants—groups like the…

— Charles River Editors

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in…

— Federico Garcia Lorca